Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon Photo: Maximilian Reininghaus. Cropped by Fallschirmjäger / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
Duncan McGillivray Photo: MacDiarmid Institute
Duncan McGillivrary, a Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, discusses the metal Baakonite. It is described as a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth, in the Star Trek universe.